Playing With My Heart
Posted on: February 9, 2011 at 1:37 pm. 4 comments
Sometimes, I really wish I could read people’s minds. I mean, I know you’d hear SO MANY THINGS you didn’t want to hear, and you’d probably hear things you were better off not knowing anyways, but in some aspects.. it could make life simpler. People would know how you really feel when you’re too scared to say it, or show it. You wouldn’t be able to lie, and as much as that might hurt sometimes.. people would get the truth first & foremost and not have to waste their time wondering how you feel, what you want or anything like that. Maybe I should change the wish, and make it.. to be able to read people’s mind when it is convenient for me. That sounds a little greedy though, since if I had it all the time I could use my powers for good. I’m not sure how.. but I’m sure I could find a way.
I haven’t really been myself lately, I kind of know why and kind of don’t. I’m just in a bleh mood all the time, and my life is too routine and boring and I just can’t wait to get my camera back, which will hopefully be tomorrow because I’ve missed it so much and it’s been so long.
Maybe I should go to the gym and work off some of these feelings that I’m having, but I don’t even know if that would work, and I have to work in a few hours too. Sigh.
If you could have any super power, what would you want?
4 comments Tags: Blah, Camera, Life, Super Powers, Thoughts.
Goals for February
Posted on: February 1, 2011 at 10:09 am. 3 comments
I was recently inspired by Georgina to start working on some monthly goals for myself. What I’m going to do though, is have some goals on a weekly basis and then some overall goals for the month. Then at the end, do a bit of a recap of the month & post my new goals for the following month. So here are my goals for February:
Weekly
1. Go to the gym at least 2 times a week.
2. Keep track of how much weight/how many reps I do for each weight machine.
3. Make sure my laundry is done every week.
4. Add 20 new quotes to quotetastic every week.
5. Read at least 100+ pages of a book each week (preferably more).
6. Blog at least three times each week.
Monthly
1. Clean my room.
2. Figure out how to fit all of my clothes into my dresser.
3. Get into a regular sleeping pattern.
4. Figure out how to use Xara3D6.
5. Have my portfolio site 75% completed.
They aren’t too complicated. Hopefully I can clean my room tomorrow since I don’t work until 5 so I’ll have all day. Then thursday, I don’t work so I will hopefully try to work on my portfolio site a bit BUTTTTT I might, hopefully maybe not 100% get my camera back. I called Black’s yesterday to see if they had heard anything, and she didn’t even know that they were sending it back..fail. But it’s been two weeks on Thursday, and the guy said 1-2 weeks & Cindy (from Black’s) said that they only get shipments in on Thursday’s so I’m HOPINGGGG it will come on Thursday. I’m so excited to get it back, it’s been so long. I’m making whoever is home when I get the call, take me AS SOOOOOOON AS POSSIBLE because I want it so badly. It’s been over a month since it’s been gone
I had a dream last night that I was getting it back tomorrow, because Cindy was driving there for some reason so she was going to pick it up? Lol wtf. That’s the second dream I’ve had of getting it back, the first was when I dreamt I got it back but it had different problems this time, and the guy at the store didn’t believe me and wouldn’t fix it.
I work 12-8 today, and then I’m going to my friend’s house for the Brooke & Julian wedding on One Tree Hill, so I’m off to do my design of the day before I have to get ready for work.
3 comments Tags: Camera, Life, Monthly Goals, Work.
I am a happy panda.
Posted on: January 20, 2011 at 9:22 pm. 7 comments
After waiting three weeks to even hear back, another week of back-and-forth calls with useless Black’s employee’s who gave me wrong numbers and useless information, a weekend of waiting for an email reply followed by another two days of call backs, I finally heard the official information about my camera:
I will be getting it back in 1-2 weeks, free of charge & covered under warranty because there is no visible damage to the outside body, since it was not dropped. I talked to a lovely man named Paul yesterday who is a part of the Nikon service team, and after looking at the camera himself & calling me back rather quickly, he said he’d talk to his boss to see what he could do about it being fixed under warranty. And while he gave no guarantees, he is my favourite person today because he called back just before I was going to the gym to let me know that I’ll get it back soon 
I also got a Blackberry today! And it came with a $50 best buy gift card, which I used part of to buy a case for my phone (a nice lime green one) and the rest I’m going to put towards The Big Bang Theory Season 3 that is on sale next week 
I’m already on season 4 but I want 3 anyways. Im currently re-watching season 2 with my sisters, and these episodes never get old.
In addition to all of this good news, yesterday was my last day of co-op. It was filled with bittersweet moments, tearful goodbyes and lots of sorrow. BAZINGA. No, I’m glad to be out of there. So happy. It took me half an hour to start the computer on the last day, and by the time I finished & got it started, the others took the ad I was going to do because they said I wouldn’t have been able to do it. Thanks. I only said an actual goodbye to two of them out of four, only one actually knew it was my last day. I mean, it was good experience & I learned more about some programs in addition to getting some stuff for my portfolio but overall, it was boring & annoying and if I had something else to do I would have quit long ago.
Now, I’m off to do my design of the day and watch some more big bang theory
7 comments Tags: Big Bang Theory, Blackberry, Camera, Cell Phones, Co-Op, Nikon, Technology.
Eff You Nikon
Posted on: January 12, 2011 at 10:56 pm. 5 comments
Back just a few days before Christmas, I posted about how my camera was broke and I had to take it back to Black’s for them to send away to Nikon to get fixed. I hadn’t dropped my camera, from any height & had only had it for two months. I was in the middle of taking pictures of my Christmas Tree when all of a sudden I started getting black spots on my camera, and at times just a full black picture. I took it to Black’s where they said there was no visual damage to show dropping or anything, so it would be 3-4weeks until they knew what was wrong.
So they called yesterday, when I was at work and told my mom it will cost me $250 to fix it because the warranty is void because the damage shows it was dropped. IT. WAS. NOT. DROPPED. My mom told them that, and they called back today & I talked to them, saying it wasn’t dropped. They said maybe at a party, or a gathering, someone else had it and it dropped. No, that didn’t happen because no one else used it. I paid a total of $875 for that camera, with the EXTENDED WARRANTY so clearly I’m going to take care of it.
I could barely talk to them on the phone, because when I get angry (even the slightest bit) I start to cry, and my whole family was there and that’s just weird. My dad was going to go and talk to them tonight, but then I got called into work so we couldn’t. I want to call them back tomorrow (hopefully when no one is home) so that if I cry it doesn’t matter, to tell them that NO, I DID NOT DROP IT. So they can either fix the camera SINCE ITS UNDER WARRANTY AND I DID NOT DROP IT IN THE TWO MONTHS I’VE HAD IT, give me a number where I can talk to Nikon about it and yell at them, or simply send the camera back, unfixed & I’ll take it back to the original Black’s location I got it from and say I want my money back. My mom keeps saying “How do we know they didn’t drop it during shipping? Or before you bought it?”
I didn’t drop it. I was in the middle of taking pictures when the camera stopped functioning properly, and wasn’t mishandling it in any way. I don’t care if the inside looks like the problem is from dropping it.. I DIDN’T DROP IT. You are a giant corporation that makes a lot of money, just fix the effing camera because I didn’t drop it. I swear, if they don’t fix it without me having to pay for it, I’m just going to take it back and get a freaking Canon or something. As much as I LOVED my camera, if Nikon is going to charge me to fix something that was clearly a camera defect and not the result of it being dropped, I’ll switch to a brand that is more reliable and isn’t going to scam me out of $250 WHEN I ALREADY PAID THE EXTRA MONEY FOR THE WARRANTY.
I’m not a happy photographer right now. So tomorrow, I’ll go to the gym and work off all of my anger like I did on monday when I was angry for a whole different reason.
Edit// Oop, just got off the phone with them and they changed their story. Now, a piece of lint derailed the shutter and since that clearly shows that I tried to clean it myself, it means the warranty is void. I DIDN’T TRY TO CLEAN IT MYSELF. Stop changing your effing story and give me the camera back. Once I get back from the gym, they are getting a not-so-friendly call from me, and I’m going to do it after my sister leaves and before my dad gets home so if I cry, it won’t matter
